Jonathan in Secret Meeting with Buhari

President Buhari and Ex-president Jonathan 

Ex- President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday night paid a secret visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja for the first time since he left in the morning of May 29.

No third person was admitted and no photograph of the night visit was allowed at the meeting which held inside the President’s official residence.

Mr. Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity,on Sunday confirmed the meeting.Adesina said he was not privy to the subject of the discussion at the meeting.

A top Presidency official who also confirmed the meeting between Buhari and Jonathan told PUNCH ;

“Nobody was with them. I am sure they don’t want the visit to be an item in the media. That probably explains why the former President visited at night and went straight to the residence. They met for a few minutes in the President’s residence,” the official said.

The Thursday night meeting was learnt to have been facilitated by Former Head of State Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar
Jonathan also sought for understanding on alleged corrupt practices and of funds under his administration, it was learnt.
A source according to TheNation said Jonathan claimed that he was hearing about some of the graft allegations  for the first time.
But Buhari was said to have insisted that all looted funds must be returned to the nation’s coffers.
He also restated his pledge that Jonathan had nothing to fear at all, according to a source who pleaded not to be named because of the “sensitivity” of the matter.